Reducing maternal mortality: Better monitoring, indicators and benchmarks needed to improve emergency obstetric care. Research summary for policymakers

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 694-696

  Collender, Guy ^a   Gabrysch, Sabine ^b   Campbell, Oona M R ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emergency obstetric care; Geographic information systems; Health services accessibility; Health services research; Maternity services; Millennium development goals

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY CARE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MATERNAL MORTALITY; NOTE; OBSTETRIC PROCEDURE; PATIENT MONITORING; POPULATION SIZE; SRI LANKA; SYNTHESIS; ZAMBIA;

BENCHMARKING; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MATERNAL MORTALITY; OBSTETRICS; POLICY MAKING; PREGNANCY; SRI LANKA; ZAMBIA;

EID: 84861657528     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2012.02983.x     Document Type: Note

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